This pic was another weakcut jam entry: "draw a scene
from a book, preferrebly one that hasn't been visualized." I had
just seen Hannibal and was kinda jazzed to draw a scene from the book
which I was also reading at the time. But I really wanted to stay faithful
to the idea of doing something that hadn't been made a movie. So I went
with this: The Real Story, written by Stephen R. Donaldson. It's a sci-fi
novel focusing on 3 characters, and how what you see isn't always what's
going on.

Here's an excerpt from the book, page4:

For them, the story was basically simple.

It began when Morn Hyland came into Mallorys with Angus
Thermopyle.

Those two called attention to themselves because they
obviously didn't belong together. Except for her ill-fitting and outdated
shipsuit, which she must have scrounged from someone else's locker, she
was gorgeous, with a body that made drunks groan in lost yearning and
a pale, delicate beauty of face that twisted dreamers' hearts. In contrast,
he was dark and disreputable, probably the most disreputable man who still
had docking rights at the station. His swarthy features were broad and
stretched, a frog-face with stiff whiskers and streaks of grease. Between
his powerful arms and scrawny legs, his middle bulged like a tire, inflated
with bile and malice.